Nurses Eating Their Young is NOT Okay

[icuRNmaggie, BSN, RN]

I think we should start a campaign of being nicer to new nurses. Give them a badge sticker with Kermit the frog on it so that

people know to be supportive

during preceptorship. "Its not easy being green. " is a really funny song.

[icuRNmaggie, BSN, RN]

I think Oscar the grouch stickers for those with seniority would be very funny too.

Kermit and Oscar would be good avatars.

[laKrugRN]

I believe there is a difference between experienced nurses being firm and constructively criticize (okay to do) and NETY (bullying, NOT okay). Some nurses just like the job done right. They can be stern with new grads/nurses. Fine. Suck it up. Move on.

HOWEVER bullying is completely unacceptable. My preceptor at my last job was an older LPN who would make comments about people's weights, would flat out lie about things (I disproved her with charting and witnesses) and even admitted she liked to "run BSN hot shots off." Now I call that bullying.

[OCNRN63, RN]

THIS.

I used playful metaphor in one of my posts on one of my threads, and it was musconstued; there are many that have "tunnel vision" and want to see whoever that doesn't agree negative-watt times infinity, and don't look at how one posts; that's what's great about this site, you can check out posters history and see how they post before responding; but then, I let then have it their time to be so wound up they can't see objectivity.

I'm still setting up the bar for whoever wants to join me.

At the rate we're going with all these cries of "NETY, NETY, NETY!," we'll all be too hammered to post anymore.

[OCNRN63, RN]

I think Oscar the grouch stickers for those with seniority would be very funny too.

Kermit and Oscar would be good avatars.

I'm not a grouch, and neither are most of the experienced nurses I know. Why would I wear a sticker denigrating me and my colleagues.

[Tenebrae, BSN, RN]

Something I learned long ago: if you take your work more seriously than you take yourself, you will not likely be that tasty a morsel. Bottoms up!

An essential quality, one that is not taught in nursing school, is the ability to be able to laugh at ones self..... I've had more than a few of those occasions in the last 2 years

[psu_213, BSN, RN]

I'm not a grouch, and neither are most of the experienced nurses I know. Why would I wear a sticker denigrating me and my colleagues.

I have some colleagues that should have one for sure! That does not, however, equate with eating young nurses. It just means they are grouchy some (most) of the time.

[silverbat]

as to avatars, wouldn't the cookie monster be better for the experienced nurses? since we are the ones doing the NETY, maybe we should run around saying COOOOKIIIEEESSS instead!! LOL

I once made a new grad cry, as well, didn't intend for her to cry, just wanted to drive home the fact she coud have killed her patient by, in her words, : rapidling pushing a CRYSTALLized solution thru the IV so it would get in faster". All I did in report to make her cry, was to ask if her pt was still alive. And then told her why I asked it because she didn't have a clue when I asked her what was incorrect about what she did.

I have precepted many many nurses and am very calm and patient with them, because I remember being new. I do not, however, suffer fools gladly, and will call them out when needed. I do, generally do this in private, never in front of others-unless I need a witness, then its one nurse(Charge, etc.).

[AmyRN303, BSN, RN]

"C" is for "cookie", that's good enough for me :)